CMU wrestling in 13th place at Southern Scuffle

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The CMU wrestling team is in 13th place out of 34 teams heading into the championship round of the Southern Scuffle which is being hosted by the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

The Chippewas have amassed 44.5 points during the two-day event and have a three-point lead on Ohio.

Penn State won with 189 points while Oklahoma State was second with 164.

Fourth-seeded Joe Roth (133) had plenty of success out of the gate as he beat Iowa State’s Dakota Bauer via pin at 5:57 before besting Clarence Arrington of the Citadel 4-0. Roth then beat 12th-seeded Jordan Conaway of Penn State 7-6 to advance into the semifinal round where he lost to top-seed Jon Morrison of Oklahoma State 3-2. Roth beat Conaway 5-2 in the fifth-place match.

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At 141 seventh-seeded Zach Horan won his first three bouts, topping Tyler Scotton of Boston 3-0, Mark Marchetti of Army 7-3 and Lavion Mayes, who was seeded 11th, 3-1. Horan then lost to Penn State’s second-seeded Zain Rutherford 2-0 in the semifinals. Horan went 1-1 in wrestlebacks, and didn’t wrestle in the seventh-eighth place match via default.

At 157 Luke Smith, who was not seeded, beat third-seeded Kyle Bradley of Missouri 6-5 for seventh-place. Smith opened with an 11-4 win over Old Dominion’s Tristan Warner, who was seeded eighth, and then beat Minnesota’s Pat Smith 3-2. From there Smith beat Penn State’s ninth-seeded James Vollrath 2-1 before losing to top-seed Alex Dieringer of Oklahoma State 7-1.